Dave Brat’s $1,000 Earthquake

Truth is one of the most powerful forces on earth. And perhaps the force most feared by compromised politicians.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's crushing defeat came at the hands of a virtual unknown college professor, one who overcame a 26 to 1 funding disadvantage in which 377 Political Action Committees (PACs) contributed to Cantor's 2014 campaign vs. 0 (zero) PAC contributions into Brat's 2014 campaign. It's been borderline hilarious to watch so many media talking heads, politicians and campaign consultants grasp at explanatory straws. It reminds me of Mark Twain's quote, "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."

The raw truth? Both major political parties, Obama's Organizing for Action, national Tea Party groups, K street campaign consultants, fundraisers and major media networks that thrive on selling expensive campaign advertising, all have major conflicts of interests concerning the essential truth of Dave Brat's winning formula. Their conflicts of interest can best be understood by asking a few two questions:

"What if Dave Brat's landmark Virginia victory was not a "fluke," and citizen-candidates across our nation learned they could easily acquire the "Brat secret"? What if local, state and national candidates believed they could similarly overcome a 26x financial disadvantage, shrink typical fundraising requirements by up to 90% and be competitive with virtually any incumbent politician without ever making one expensive media buy?"

Steve Adler, founder of rVotes, need never worry about being accepted by the Washington Beltway's "cool people." Immediately following Dave Brat's historic primary victory, Mr. Adler should have faced a crushing demand for wall-to-wall media coverage, catapulting him into the national spotlight. But instead of being heralded as the head coach of the USA's Olympic Hockey Team that famously upset the Russians in 1980, Mr. Adler remains largely unknown. I've yet to hear a major news media organization credit Steve Adler for his central role in Eric Cantor's stunning defeat. If "real journalists" engaged in actual journalism, thousands of patriotic citizens interested in running for elected office would understand they can defeat corrupt, out of touch politicians, just as Dave Brat dethroned Eric Cantor.

Dave Brat's "secret" decision to engage rVotes resulted in all volunteers on his team becoming instantly IT empowered, in a manner establishment Democrats have embraced for twelve or more years. Today, the Republican Party still refuses to embrace an open access database policy for anyone but their endorsed candidates. Only the elite, GOP approved, controlling minority are permitted access to their proprietary canvassing software platform. Team Brat, on the other hand, working collaboratively and in real time, inflated GOP primary voter turnout in their district by 38% from 2012 and 2014. Adler's rVotes helped the volunteers on Brat's team target individual voters as expertly as Cris Kyle took aim at enemy jihadists.

Dave Brat beat the GOP machine with Barack Obama's campaign software. And the GOP still doesn't get it.

Why rVotes Should Terrify the Entire DC Establishment

Adler's rVotes, like the Democrat party's favored VoteBuilder, is more than just some cool set of campaign and election tools. rVotes is virtually identical to the Obama campaign technology platform. Steve Adler should know, he wrote the source code. After accepting a buyout from his business partners in 2005, a pay package that included his Voter Action Network (now called "VoteBuilder") source code and a five-year non-compete agreement, Adler stayed on the sidelines until launching rVotes in 2010. Prior to rVotes, the two major election campaign platform systems were the Democrat's sophisticated Voter Action Network and the Republican's propriety, grossly inferior, tightly controlled Voter Vault platform.

The rVote's platform was designed for open access, individual use by an infinite number of users and grassroots groups. Adler's rVotes offers a voter intelligence infrastructure that unifies, synchronizes and weaponizes data, for the benefit political candidates and organizations on the right (conservative) side of the political fence. And there are no GOP gatekeepers or good old boys determining who can and can't access the system. Our founding fathers that penned the phrase "We the People," could have never imaged this degree of power.

Although no single, "silver bullet" can explain a candidate's victory, there is no doubt Brat's rVotes decision made his historical Virginia election possible. By making a $1,000 investment, the Brat campaign was empowered to crush the GOP "machine." And combined with his skillful recruiting of disciplined volunteers, Team Brat out-worked and out-smarted an out-of-touch, over-consulted, highly financed insider. It took but a total of $150,000 - and zero name recognition - to topple the second highest-ranking republican in America sitting on a $5,000,000 war chest.

The Washington beltway, ruling elites in media and politics have zero interest in everyday Americans learning about the disruptive political technology that just rocked their industry.

It's a Brave New World. Thank you, Steve Adler. On behalf of all Americans, I salute you.

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About the AuthorRob Cunningham

Rob is a husband, Dad, writer, filmmaker, conservative activist and blogger at RobCunninghamUSA.com. He created AboutCommonCore.com, a website designed to rapidly spread public awareness of the most vile government propaganda scheme in US history. He’s co-founder of a leadership and sales training company, previously served as an investment banker and mortgage industry consultant, was a Delta Air Lines pilot and seven year veteran of the USAF. He earned a degree in management information systems from the University of Georgia. You can follow Rob on Twitter @Rob_Cunningham.